Money's tight, and freelance work has been tough to come by. So, thanks to a Craigslist post, I actually took on a job scheduling sausage samplers for a California-based sausage company. Mostly in Safeways and Costcos in the greater Denver area, though once I had to drive damn near to Pueblo (which is a LONG freakin way) to cover for someone who couldn't make their Safeway gig.
It's a bizarre job -- but it covers a chunk of the monthly expenses. I roll into Safeway or Costco, strap on my khaki apron, set up my little folding table with red-checkered tablecloth, lay out the crock pots and set in samples of Chicken Apple, Andouille, Jalapeno, or other types of sausages to heat up and start smelling yummy. Then I waylay shoppers-by with sausage samples.
When I worked at Carme, selling Mill Creek shampoos and Allercreme cosmetics, I remember hitting some of the American Academy of Dermatology annual conferences. The docs would all be "in sessions" while their wives (mostly male docs = mostly wives) would hit the trade show exhibits trolling for freebies. The Safeway shoppers are usually polite -- but the Costco foragers make the ridiculously greedy doctors' wives look like saints! Don't these people EAT before they go shopping? And can't they learn to control their damn kids?
Anyway, mostly I help to hire and schedule other folks -- but in truth, working the "store events" is actually kind of fun. Plus, it's certainly helping me to learn my way around the Greater Metropolitan Denver Area -- I know Castle Rock from Westminster or Evergreen now.
